I saw this explained well in a book called The Phoenix Project. The book talks about what software development can learn from decades of manufacturing process improvements.
This blog post shows the graph presented by the book, which makes a similar but more general point to yours and further formalizes the Slack concept.
Seems it’s hard to pin down the source of this concept, but it apparently follows from Little’s Law.
I saw this explained well in a book called The Phoenix Project. The book talks about what software development can learn from decades of manufacturing process improvements.
This blog post shows the graph presented by the book, which makes a similar but more general point to yours and further formalizes the Slack concept.
Seems it’s hard to pin down the source of this concept, but it apparently follows from Little’s Law.